Wireless card comes up as noneX@pci… Can this be fixed?
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It's an 802.11ac card, no support for it in FreeBSD (which pfSense is based on) yet.
Also the re(4) driver is ethernet only so it looks like your addon card with realtek NICs has three ports, re0, re1 and re2, at least that's what pfSense detects.
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Thanks for the info. Can I expect/assume that it will be supported at some point in future or is it unlikely that something like that will happen? In the meantime I guess I'll have to look for a Linux based firewall distro for that box :/
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The status of 802.11ac support as of now.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/80211ac
As I understand it there aren't many people working on it. The main contributor is Adrian Chadd (works for Atheros afaik) who has had a huge part in getting wireless support in FreeBSD to the point it's in now but there's only so much one man can do.
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About all you can do is try a 2.4 snapshot and see if it gets detected there.
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Hello all
running into a similar issue, have a Jetway JBC362W it has Internal Mini PCI-Express socket (utilised by Atheros AR9285 chipset Wireless 802.11 b/g/n card) which I believe is supported?
Installed pfSense 2.3.4 today and no wireless interface. If I shell in and run pciconf -lv I get the following output. Looks like it is seeing the wireless hardware as a 'RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter' not the 'Atheros AR9285' or am I missing something?Thanks in advance
none1@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x21591a3b chip=0xb72310ec rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter'
class = network
re0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec rev=0x06 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
re1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec rev=0x06 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet -
If it was supported, a driver would have attached.
pciconf shows the info straight from PCI, what you see there is most likely correct. Perhaps the card is not what you thought.
Otherwise the response is the same. Try 2.4 (not 2.3.4), which uses a newer base OS, FreeBSD 11. It might be supported there.
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Hi jimp
Thanks for the info and such a quick reply :) -
It's not supported yet afaik. The supported hardware page for FreeBSD-CURRENT (to be released as FreeBSD 12 when ready) doesn't list it:
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Know it's been a while but have been very busy. An update is was a different card that was supplied without notifying me of the change. To be fair they sent me on the correct card and I can now see it in the software.
Cheers
Owenus -
Hi folks, I have the same problem now for an PFSense installation on a Lenovo desktop rtl8821ae not being detected on a 2.4.3-RELEASE, how can I install a driver?
